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  1. Jos TechSpot Staff Posts: 1,668   +21

    There's no denying Google's dominance in the search engine market. The Mountain View giant currently holds somewhere between 80-90% of the global search market, depending on where you get your numbers, and is almost as dominant in the U.S. alone with a 66% share, according to the latest comScore report. It's become so present in our lives that the word 'google' itself is commonly used as a verb and has even made it to the Oxford and Merriam-Webster dictionaries.

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    Jos, Feb 4, 2011
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  2. Nima304 TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 202   +13

    I've never used anything before Google. Heil Google!
    Nima304, Feb 4, 2011
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  3. Guest

    Combination of Yahoo!, Hotbot, and Infoseek.
    Guest, Feb 4, 2011
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  4. Guest

    Metacrawler ftw!
    Guest, Feb 4, 2011
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  5. Guest

    Same here, Google is King.
    Guest, Feb 4, 2011
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  6. Guest

    All Hail Google!!!
    Guest, Feb 4, 2011
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  7. Kibaruk TechSpot Paladin Posts: 815   +16

    Altavista :O
    Kibaruk, Feb 4, 2011
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  8. Guest

    AltaVista until summer 1999 - then Google
    Guest, Feb 4, 2011
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  9. Guest

    Still using Metacrawler.
    Guest, Feb 4, 2011
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  10. Guest

    I used to use Dogpile
    Guest, Feb 4, 2011
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  11. Guest

    Lycos ----
    Guest, Feb 4, 2011
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  12. Tekkaraiden TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 763   +18

    Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, Metacrawler, Dogpile and whatever microsoft had before Bing.
    Tekkaraiden, Feb 4, 2011
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  13. Guest

    yahoo then google
    Guest, Feb 4, 2011
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  14. Guest

    AltaVista until summer 1999 - then Google
    ...ditto
    Guest, Feb 4, 2011
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  15. Guest

    yahoo i think, after i found google ive used them ever since ^^ google is the best! ^^
    Guest, Feb 4, 2011
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  16. Julio Franco TechSpot Editor Posts: 6,045   +119

    For some reason Yahoo never appealed to me, so before Google I mostly relied on Altavista and Infoseek. I remember at one point there was no single search engine that delivered usable results for all queries, so I had to stumble back and forth until something good came up. Then Google came along and I never looked back, though to be honest as much as the I love instant search, I hate the screenshots that go along when you hover over results.
    Julio Franco, Feb 4, 2011
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  17. Guest

    Altavista too.
    Guest, Feb 4, 2011
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  18. hitech0101 TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 355   +11

    Yahoo & askjeeves besides Google but first was Google as it was default on my browser.
    hitech0101, Feb 4, 2011
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  19. matrix86 TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 761

    Ask Jeeves was my main search engine, though I occasionally used Yahoo. After reading this article, I went and visited ask.com for the first time since Google came out.....boy has it changed, lol. I can't believe they got rid of Jeeves...the butler of the search engine :p
    matrix86, Feb 4, 2011
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  20. gooderguy Newcomer, in training Posts: 50

    I used several like AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, Infoseek, Yahoo, and then when Dogpile came out and combined many of those I started using it. Wow, just now for the heck of it I tried all those search sites and they are still all there, just one changed names, it's been so long.
    gooderguy, Feb 5, 2011
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